Terrelle Pryor pleads guilty to criminal mischief in Murrysville domestic incident

Former NFL quarterback and Jeannette High School football star Terrelle Pryor pleaded guilty Monday to criminal mischief in connection with a fall 2021 domestic incident in Murrysville.

He was accused of hitting and shoving a woman before tossing a deck chair and throwing pumpkins at her car outside a home in Murrysville in October.

Pryor pleaded guilty to throwing the pumpkins at her car. Prosecutors dismissed one misdemeanor count of simple assault and a summary charge of harassment.

“I did it,” Pryor, 31, told Westmoreland County Common Pleas Judge Scott Mears.

Pryor was fined $300.

Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Echard said Pryor completed anger management and mental health counseling to facilitate the plea deal.

Pryor and defense attorney Stephen Colafella declined to comment after the court hearing.

District Attorney Nicole Ziccarelli did not respond to a request for comment.

Police said the confrontation started after Pryor and the woman returned to Murrysville after visiting a bar in Oakmont. Pryor went to the home, and the woman went to another bar. According to court records, the woman claimed the pair argued through text messages. She told police she received 50 calls and 30 text messages from Pryor.

She later returned to the home and walked to a back deck where she said Pryor tossed a deck chair and confronted her before she fled to her Mercedes-Benz parked in front. Pryor threw pumpkins at the vehicle, denting the windshield glass, police said.

The incident was Pryor’s second brush with the law since his football career ended. Pryor pleaded guilty in 2020 to a summary harassment offense in connection with an altercation with a woman that resulted in his being stabbed multiple times in the chest and shoulder.

Pryor served a 90-day probation sentence in that case. The woman was originally charged with attempted homicide but pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and was sentenced to two years of probation.

Following their guilty pleas in 2020, an Allegheny County judge, at the request of defense lawyers, lifted a court order barring the couple from having contact.